Key features

• •The book is an exhaustive compilation of renewable energy technology
• •The chapters have been written by experts from various fields
• •Photographs and graphs are presented with each chapter
• •State-of-the-art technologies are explained simply and in a lucid manner
• •The book will be an interesting read for a lay person interested in knowing about the recent advances in renewable energy
• •Energy and development: concerns of the current millennium
• •Renewable energy utilization: desirability, feasibility, and the niches
• •Review of basic scientific and engineering principles
• •The solar energy resource
• •Solar photovoltaic technology
• •Solar thermal engineering
• •Elements of passive solar architecture
• •Wind energy resources
• •Introduction to wind turbine technology
• •Small hydro: resource and technology
• •Geothermal energy, tidal energy, wave energy, and ocean thermal energy
• •Bio-energy resources
• •Thermochemical conversion of biomass
• •Biochemical methods of conversion
• •Liquid fuels from biomass: fundamentals, process chemistry, and technologies